Black People : USA: Bad Jobs Country

by executive editor Glen Ford
Researchers confirm what desperate workers have sensed: most of the good jobs lost in the Great
Recession have been replaced with bad jobs. That’ fine with Wall Street, since “capital’s global plan is
to reduce all workers to a state of absolute insecurity, so that they will accept those bad jobs without
complaint.”

“You will hear no countervailing vision from the Democrats, whose message differs from
Republicans only in tone, not in substance.”

A new study shows that the U.S. economy has finally produced more jobs than there were before the
Great Recession of 2008. The problem is, they’re mostly bad jobs in fast-food restaurants and
low-wage retail. The National Employment Law Project found that there are almost two million fewer
good paying jobs than there were back in 2008, but also close to two million more jobs in the
low-wage sector of the economy – meaning, most of the new jobs have been bad jobs.